New to Recording

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:52 pm

hello everybody,
im looking to set up a home studio, and i honestly dont know what to do. i would appreciate it if you guys gave me ideas on mics, programs, speakers, and everything else.

thank you very much

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:55 pm

No idea about what?

What to get?
How to put it together?
How to use it?
What you want to do with it?

In any event, go:here.

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:58 pm

basically all of the above,i know the basics, but thats just lessons from procare on logic express, really i dont know anything.

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:32 pm

run in the other direction, save your money for more pressing issues like keeping a roof over your head.

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:43 pm

im still in high school, im getting an internship at a recording studio, i just want to set somthing up.

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:46 pm

still applies...but good luck with your venture.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:07 am

What kind of music are you going to be recording? That would help determine your initial equipment.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:53 am

Get a cheapish external USB sound device. I use my laptop, an Edirol UA-25 and a Behringer AU$60 mic to record my bands jamb sessions (just so we can listen back to review our stuff). The software sonic LE that came with the Edirol is easy enough to use. Granted one mic recording drums and 3 guitars is rather useless. I can record single tracks at a time that have bugger all noise and a good clean sound so given alot of time I can create proper sounding tracks for all the instruments individually and put it together on the laptop later.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:53 am

I think most of us here probably started out the same way. Spend awhile (for me it was a couple years) thinking/researching/reading recording mags/looking at gear online and reading reviews.

Eventually you get an idea of what you might need to record your music. For me, it was about 9 years ago and since I was a high-school student like yourself and didn't have a lot of cash, I bought a PC, a Audiophile 24/96 sound card, a cheap little B^$#%$'er mixer, and a Rode NT3 off a friend. And you know what, I'm just upgrading now.

What I'm trying to say is that if you want to record music you find a way to do it. I just bought a old Tascam Portastudio 246 for kicks. Even that can sound pretty cool on it's own.

Something to record on, and someway to get the sound in there. That's a good start.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:08 am

Forget usb.

Take it out of your vocabulary.

Computer peripherals is about all you can trust this protocol with.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:17 am

Space wrote:

Forget usb.

What's your beef with usb2.0?

Streaming digital information through usb is bad why?

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:29 am

Bad is a term used for correcting puppies and wayward children. Beef is not suitable as an interface and bad beef is just not healthy.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:45 am

My apologies for using a colloquialism or two.
As for proper English, your use of "not" like a Boolean operator for "suitable" and "healthy" is just uncool.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:46 am

Nothing wrong with usb if you are recording single tracks at a time. Anything beyond that is debatable. Tascam has a USB 2.0 interface that, apparently, is capable of multitracking 8-16 tracks at a time. Personally, I would go to firewire for that but I would rather be cautious than optimistic in that regard.

Going to be interning right out of highschool? Must be nice. Go get yourself an M-Box mini and you're set for software and hardware. Get the best set of near field monitors you can afford and a Shure SM57. That's enough to get you started. Make sure you watch the tutorial DVD that comes with the M-Box.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:24 pm

When I bought the Edirol I was weighing up weather to spend the $150 more to get the Mbox for pro-tools, inserts and firewire.
I don't have anything to insert into an insert, Pro-tools records a single track at a time exactly the same as Sonic and my processor has enough grunt to run my usb to full potential read and my PATA HDD to write to.
My Behringer XM8500 mic costs half that of the Sm57, and I can't tell the difference between them on _any_ of my friends stereos. I can with my Sennheiser HD-600's but not with my HD-220 pros.
With a good headphone preamp (the edirol is good enough but I've heard better) and the HD-600s you will hear everything.
If you're on a budget then you're already in trouble. Just get the basics down. save the tracks if it's any good get it mixed and mastered on something better in the future. Learn the art of proper recording spend the cash you save on books, tutorials and sessions with engineers in studios and lessons with instruments.
If you have the skills and the knowledge, then in the future someone else will pay for the premium hardware.
Just one persons opinion btw. Razz

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